Writer Quotes · Page 593

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

— Ernest Hemingway

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

— George Crabbe

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

— William Butler Yeats

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

— Dan Poynter

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

— William Beckett

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

— Paulo Coelho

“Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you…

— Anne Lamott

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read,…

— Dorothy Parker

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you…

— Juan Gabriel

Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to…

— Tayari Jones

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's…

— Joanne Harris

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

— Dana Perino

I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's…

— Libba Bray

“It’s one of the great perks of being a librarian,” Julie said. “I can read whatever I want, whenever I want, and…

— Anonymous

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about…

— Paul Theroux

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,…

— Nicholas Carr

Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide…

— Emma Donoghue

The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better…

— Eduardo Galeano

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us…

— G.K. Chesterton

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that…

— Neil Gaiman

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”

— Kim Holden

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

“Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.”

— Tony Collins

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

— Siri Hustvedt

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

— Jami Attenberg

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

— Richard Heber

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

— R. L. Stine

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

— Todd McFarlane

“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.”

— Kate Evangelista

“The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

— Anne Rice

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do…

— Rebecca Mead

“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

— Thomas Carlyle